Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
I love Japanese maples also and I have a small collection. I will have to move one this fall, they grow really slow and I need some fast shade for all these Hostas!
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29